scary...

Exit Mundi

Stange, very strange. A little paranoic I think

lol. interesting site though...

pretty interesting site, will definitely explore more later

A shame that some people have nothing better to do than contemplate the end. Life is to be enjoyed, not spent wondering if you are gonna be here tomorrow.

true.

let me bring in a famous quote .. haha
"happiness is not a destination, but a way of travel"

Okay and ur point of this site would be.......................

i have no idea, but its scary

Especially the one about dreams
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Dreamsend.htm

They've got their particle physics wrong in that one, BTW:


That bits mostly wrong, or at least severely flawwed.

The site, IMHO is not made by someone paranoid, because he isn't inventing these things, he's just catalogging them. And it all seems reasonably light hearted to me.

Yeah, I agree. Its not even possible to split a nucleus as far as I know. Ties into the whole conservation of mass.

ummm... ya it is... thats how nukes work... you fire a neutron into the nucleus of an uranium atom, it splits and releases energy... however, at present, they havent found a way to spilt the sub-atomic particles that make up the nucleus (ie. protons and neutrons).

sorry, but there is no such thing... there is conservation of energy... and mass and energy are interchangeable (ie. nukes), but they havent found a way to go the other way yet (ie. energy to mass).

Um, Im sorry, but I have to disagree. Im a little rusty on this, but the way a nuclear bomb works is by reaching critical mass of U235, which is about the size of a baseball. When reached, the U235 gives off a neutron which hits another atom of U235, which gives off another n (n=neutron), actually 3, which gives off more etc etc. Its a chain reaction of releasing neutrons. The actual release of the neutron combines with the U235 creates U236, which is highly unstable, and so it rips apart violently, creating Ba192 and Kr91. Millions of these "rips" happen all at once, caused by the chain reaction of neutrons, and so that is the explosion you see. If it was just a matter of splitting a nucleus, we could make a bomb out of anything. The nucleus is all the same, its what is in the orbital shells that causes it to be Hydrogen or Oxygen etc. This being so, these shells have electrons on rings, known as valence electrons. These give the atom a charge which allows us to combine them to make elements. Hence H2O etc.



// I geuss I could explain the conservation of mass, and how it ties in if someone wants me too.

yes it is splitting...

nuclear bombs are based off of nuclear fission (nuclear-nucleus, fission-splitting)



http://library.thinkquest.org/3471/nucl ... _body.html

Ok, I jsut spent about 10 minutes looking it up, and your right (Smokenjoe hangs head in shame). The bursting of the uranium, or the tearing as I said earlier IS caused by the splitting of atoms. When the neutron is released, it splits the nucleus, which in turn releases 3 more blah blah blah (everything else I said earlier). So, you were right. My bad.

Although, and interesting side note, Fission can be harnessed( a nuclear reactor), but Fussion cant. Fussion is so very cool because it breaks the nucleus through heat. Thats how a hydrogen bomb works, but thats another story for another time. The cool thing that they are working on right now is how to harness Fussion. Its neat because Fussion does not leave radioactivity and also the byproducts cannot be used to create nukes. The downside, and the reason their not all over yet, is because the breaking temerature is about 10 million degrees farenheit. I believe that Princeton (sp?) is the only place in the US that has a Fussion reactor, and they just recently were able to match the energy input with the energy output. They still have a long way to go, but its definitly progress.

//If you couldnt tell, nuclear physics and chemistry is sorta a hobby of mine

wow now i'm scared! the jedi wll save me!